A Foreign Affair Review

A Foreign Affair is one of the oldest and most respected international dating agencies. It represents tens of thousands of beautiful women from Russia, Latin America, and Asia, so you can go on a worldwide girl watching expedition from your computer.

They do not have as high of a percentage of super hot women as some sites, but, because of the number of profiles and the wide number of countries they cover, A Foreign Affair may have more super hot girls than anyone else. They also have more older women and women from virtually any ethnic, religious, or educational background you could imagine.

Like most sites you need to register to see all of the photos, but it is FREE and the photos are as good as those of any agency.

They have an outstanding search engine which is critical to sorting through the huge number of profiles, if you're looking for a specific trait or common interest in your sweetheart you can probably find it.

For instance, just recently there were 768 women on a Foreign Affair who listed bowling as an interest on their profile, so if you are looking for a bowling partner or an accountant or an artist or dancer you can almost certainly find her at A Foreign Affair.

A Foreign Affair is the definition of a full service international dating agency. They offer an incredible number of goods and services including: translations, visa services, apartment rentals, and even pocket translators.

A Foreign Affair is, along with the Anastasia family of sites, a real leader in the romance tour industry. They offer more tours to more places that anyone and the ratings for their tours are simply off the charts.

The Website

A Foreign Affair’s website is a mess. This undoubtedly goes back to the fact that they have been on the internet since almost the beginning of the internet’s widespread use. Apparently, they have never been willing to do a desperately needed full site redesign, and it shows!

The website is busy, hard to navigate, and very complex. There are about two hundred buttons and links on the front page, many of them redundant. In fact, the website is pretty much a textbook example of atrocious web design.

However, you should remember that the only reason that A Foreign Affair can get away with such a mess of a website is because they have such an outstanding reputation in the industry. The situation is similar at Elena’s Models, another established industry leaders, just not quite to the degree of A Foreign Affair. 

Cost

The cost plan at A Foreign Affair is incredibly complicated, and much like the website, it could use a full overhaul. On the ordering page there appear to be three membership levels, Platinum, Gold, and Silver, but it is so confusing that we wrote to A Foreign Affair for a clarification on their pricing policies before writing this review.

Here is their response, including the sections they highlighted:

So, you can order one or two addresses each for $12.00 each or three or more at once for $9.00 each, or you can get up to 100 addresses a month if you become a Platinum member. There is a one time fee of $95.00 to become a Platinum member and then it's $29.00 a month, but if you are really going all out this is a pretty good deal, only .29 cents an address after the first month.

If the girls do not have e-mail you only get postal addresses.  If you use A Foreign Affair's Express Mail service you pay an additional $9.99 or $7.99 if you are a Platinum Member. Remember, they are translating the letters too so, unless you are fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, or whatever language your lady speaks, this is probably a pretty good deal, because a lot of agencies charge that much or more for just for translations.

Finally, you have to remember that unlike some other agencies you are free to communicate however you want to after the initial contact and in the long run that can really save you money.

Security

A Foreign Affair is based in Phoenix, Arizona and has earned an “A” from the Better Business Bureau. That “A” is an incredibly tough grade in this industry, because obviously there are more emotions at stake in the dating industry than in, say a hardware store.

Also, AFA is very good about pulling down the profiles of women who have gotten engaged or decided to no longer use the service, so you should rarely if ever end up contacting a woman who is simply not interested.

Final Analysis

A Foreign Affair is an outstanding agency and they offer more services than any international dating agency. If you aren’t really certain what part of the world you are interested in, A Foreign Affair is great, because they really do cover the world. They also offer great service and have very strong scam protection, they’ve earned their A.